Breaking news from Washington, D.C. indicates that Hunter Biden’s high-paid solicitor Abbe Lowell might be modeling his behavior along the lines of the New York Times, other leftist media, and FBI. Just like those “august bodies” avoided the realness of the “Hunter Biden Laptop” and the evident crimes documented therein, Hunter’s lawyer appears eager to avoid the reality of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) presentation and questions during her exchange Wednesday, July 19, with IRS whistleblower Special Agent Joseph Ziegler.
Lowell Friday filed an Ethics Complaint with the House directed at Greene for her actions and statements during the Ziegler conversation, but seems oblivious to what she actually said and did.
He also appears to miss the dark irony of citing “ethics” when dealing with Hunter and Joe Biden.
Write Joe Schoffstall and Jessica Chasmar for Fox News:
“Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's attorney, filed an ethics complaint Friday against Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green after she displayed censored nude photos of the president's son at a committee hearing Wednesday.”
Those would be photos of Hunter that show him with an alleged prostitute, which, as we all know, seems really, really, out of character for the President’s son.
“Lowell demanded the Office of Congressional Ethics ‘immediately’ examine Greene's actions, which he called ‘abhorrent behavior that blatantly violates House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct’ in his message to the watchdog.”
Yes. You, too, can try to wrap your head around the idea that showing the seemingly illegal activity of Lowell’s client is “abhorrent behavior” but, of course, Mr. Lowell has no problem getting paid to represent the man in the actual photos engaging in the behavior Ms. Greene showed to Special Agent Ziegler.
And the irony – and blindness to reality gets even more delicious.
"’Now more than ever, the House has a duty to make loud and clear that it does not endorse, condone, or agree with her outrageous, undignified conduct and brazen violations of the standards of official conduct that do not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives,’ Lowell wrote in a letter, which The Hill first reported.”
Indeed, The Hill’s Mychael Schnell noted the ferocious Mr. Lowell offered even more rhetoric in his letter:
“’This political stunt by Ms. Greene will go down as a historic event unbecoming of any member of Congress and beneath the dignity of the House of Representatives,’ he added.”
But, like the FBI and New York times were with the Hunter Laptop, Lowell appears eager to avoid the reality of what Ms. Greene actually – and quite effectively – did.
In his letter/complaint, Lowell has the audacity to continue denying reality – or trying to reshape it, spewing:
“None of her actions or statements could possibly be deemed to be part of any legitimate legislative activity, as is clear from both the content of her statements and her conduct and the forums she uses to spew her unhinged rhetoric..."
Sadly, one suspects that Mr. Lowell appears to have been out of the room when Greene appeared. He overlooks the fact that she repeatedly asked agent Zeigler if the Biden receipts and tax-write-off claims appeared to violate the 1910 MANN ACT, which prohibits cross-state transport of females for the purposes of sex-sales. The bill also is called the "White-Slave Traffic Act."
As FoxNews notes:
“Ziegler testified Wednesday that Hunter Biden itemized a $10,000 deduction on his 2018 tax return for a supposed golf club membership that was actually a sex club membership and that he wrote off payments to prostitutes as business expenses.”
Greene made sure to bring up that issue and double-check with Ziegler about it, and he affirmed that the deduction appeared to be NOT for a golf club membership, but for sex-solicitation.
Nothing to see there, Mr. Lowell. Right on. It has nothing to do with the federal government, or statutes Mr. Biden, as Chief Executive, might possibly enforce through his mountain of tax-paid “federal agents” or anything like that.
“Greene held up censored nude photos from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop and addressed Ziegler.
‘So, when Hunter Biden paid for this woman to do this with him, to travel across state lines from California to Washington, D.C., on June 15, this is a violation of the Mann Act. This was prostitution,’ Greene said.”
The video of Ms. Greene’s exchange with Ziegler is difficult to watch, but she does a good job repeatedly referring to statute – statute that, evidently, Mr. Lowell would prefer we not see, just like the cloaking in which the pop media and FBI engaged when it came to the laptop, itself.
Constitutionally, one can cite problems with the Mann Act, since the baseline for the feds is supposed to be handling extradition conflicts between states should a person engaging in criminal activity in one state travel over state lines, and the Constitution originally was not formulated to allow the feds to create assorted “federal crimes” if the activities occur over state borders.
But this is not part of their fiery debate, and the other legal minefield of Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine is excluded from this battle about "ethics."
Perhaps most notable, however, is the larger philosophical reality: the absurdity of an “ethics” complaint in Congress, at all.
In lecture halls, I make sure students understand what the word “ethics” means, and that requires us to begin with “morality.” Morality is the internal awareness of what is “right and wrong, good and evil.” Ethics is the outward projection of one’s moral code, or, in other words "Ethics" is “morals in action” among other people.
As a result, we know that stealing is both immoral and unethical. It is wrong to take something from someone without his or her permission. It is wrong to force someone to pay for what you or I might command. And this reveals the big lesson, the twisted macro-irony: In a political system, a system funded via taxation, people actually are talking about “ethics.”
Seriously.
The entire tax-grabbing paradigm is unethical, logically unsupportable, and a bleak, enslaving farce. This cannot be denied, no matter how much Mr. Lowell – or anyone in politics -- would like to deny reality. And if the Lowell complaint about Ms. Greene helps us in any way, it is to shed light on the absurdity of claiming anything to do with government is "ethical."